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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''minimum description length''' (MDL) principle formalizes [[Occam's razor|Occam's razor]] by selecting the model that minimizes the total bits needed to encode both the model and the data. Developed by Jorma Rissanen, MDL treats model selection as a [[Data compression|compression]] problem. A good model compresses the data well; a bad model requires many bits. MDL shares asymptotic properties with the [[Bayesian information criterion|BIC]] but avoids prior distributions. It extends to [[Stochastic complexity|stochastic complexity]] for non-parametric settings.<br />
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